Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg. Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesPresident Biden Zoomed with world leaders last week to announce his plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Unfortunately, his proposal will almost certainly have the opposite effect by transferring relatively clean U.S. energy production to dirty producers overseas.
As children, we learn that objects continue to exist even when they can’t be seen. Energy production is no exception. By canceling American projects, resource extraction and jobs are shifting to environmentally damaging operations in Russia, China and elsewhere. The evidence is everywhere. On Russia’s Yamal Peninsula, construction of a mammoth $27 billion natural-gas plant was recently completed in support of the region’s 1,500 gas-flaring production sites. In China, the world’s leading polluter is producing more low-quality coal, methane emissions, and CO2 with each passing year.
So why has the Biden administration chosen to target Alaska’s highly regulated energy industry? What logic is there in trading clean North Slope oil production for Yamal’s methane-spewing wells? Alaska’s oil and gas producers don’t flare their gas—they pump it back into the ground. State-of-the-art horizontal-drilling technology limits their development footprint. And caribou herds areMaybe the president considers the demands made by his green allies a matter of principle.
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opinion GovDunleavy Is there a law that says Alaskan Governors have to be the dumbest people on earth?
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opinion GovDunleavy What an irresponsible piece of garbage to post this. We are killing the planets Green technology will not kill jobs and you know that. Publishing this is not okay. BTW Largest fund in the world moved a trillion dollars out of fossil fuels. Stop pushing lies.
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opinion GovDunleavy Biden hates employed Americans with good paying jobs. America oil companies are clean, non-polluting, industries that provide much needed fuel. He’s throwing hundreds of thousands citizens out of work In many diverse corporations.
opinion GovDunleavy Spoken like a true oil industry hack.
opinion GovDunleavy How can we have a thriving 21st century economy with a 20th century infrastructure?
opinion GovDunleavy GovDunleavy should get busy futureproofing his state instead of whining on the WSJ
opinion GovDunleavy Of course. But let the socialists live in their fantasy land of “ stopping climate change” (formerly known as Global Warming which was gonna kill us all by now back in the 80’s) but this time it really is gonna kill us(but when it doesn’t they will make up a new slogan)
opinion GovDunleavy Says the governor of the geographically largest state in the Union and the third smallest in population - brimming with natural resources and vulnerable to continued and escalating exploitation. 'Come on up, there's plenty to plunder!'
opinion GovDunleavy another Murdock opinion being pushed out across his platform using a governor who has only one interest and that is oil. They're trying to hold onto a destructive industry just like when people used to bitch when seatbelt first came out and how they were going to kill more people
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opinion GovDunleavy Wow!!! Pessimistic or just a stock holder in the fossil fuel industry?
opinion GovDunleavy The rest of the planet is embracing renewable energy which is creating jobs that don't give you black lung. But 50 years from now, Americans will still be chained to the coal face, chipping away lump by lump. Amazing to think the world used to admire US technological expertise.
opinion GovDunleavy that makes sense, biden is an idiot who has done nothing in all his years as a politician. even now his tax the rich plan has a loophole that allows biden pelosi and other rich people to not pay those taxes. do you really expect him to do something right
opinion GovDunleavy said the GOP oil guy
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opinion GovDunleavy Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson promises to power every home in the UK with offshore wind energy within a decade, pledging to make the coronavirus pandemic a catalyst for green growth.
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opinion GovDunleavy Ridiculous argument...